1920s

First Baptist Church, Cape Girardeau, Missouri Collection, 1928 (R1091)
(1 folder)

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This is an illustrated booklet prepared for the dedication of the new building for the First Baptist Church at Cape Girardeau in Cape girardeau county, Missouir. Included are photographs of the building and its major rooms, portraits fo the staff, and a program of events. The Reverend George S. Ellyson served as pastor.

First Baptist Church (Columbia, Mo.) Records, 1823-1972 (C3617)
3 rolls of microfilm

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Minutes and chronological register.

First Baptist Church, Joplin, Missouri Collection, 1926 (R0831)
(1 folder)

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This is the "Year Book 1926" for the T.E.L. Sunday School Class of the First Baptist Church of Joplin in Jasper County, Missouri. Included are a list of officers and committee members, a schedule of meetings, and a membership roll.

First Baptist Church, West Plains, Missouri Records, 1892-1956 (R0348)
(2 rolls of microfilm)

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The First Baptist Church, West Plains, Missouri Records contain a microfilm copy of the First Baptist Church at West Plains in Howell County, Missouri records. The records include minutes of meetings, membership registers, and statistical data. Also included are minute books from the Sunday school program, 1899-1914, and the record book of the Baptist Young People’s Union, 1907-1914.

First Christian Church Photographs, 1875-1960 (P0851)

Photos of and relating to First Christian Church

First Christian Church (Columbia, Mo.) Records, 1824-1997 (C3991)
16.75 cubic feet (1009 folders), 18 audio cassettes

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The church records include minutes of administrative boards and committees, ministers' and administrators' papers, papers of the Christian Student Congregation, publications, the Bear Creek Church record book, the record book of the Construction Committee, and papers of several affiliated clubs and committees. Documents especially cover the period from the 1920s to 1964. In addition, this collection contains drafts and notes by Mary K. Dains for her history of the First Christian Church published in 1996. Her research includes interview recordings with church members.

First Christian Church, West Plains, Missouri Records, 1893-1983 (R0349)
(2 rolls of microfilm)

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The First Christian Church, West Plains, Missouri Records contain a microfilm copy, of the church’s records. Included are membership, marriage, and death records, lists of officers, and minutes of meetings of the church board, 1893-1954. There are also records of the women’s auxiliaries of the church, 1918-1983.

First Congregational Church of Cameron, Missouri, Records, 1879-1922 (K0407)
0.2 c.f.

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Meeting minutes, membership records (including marriages and deaths), lists of trustees, and resignation letters of pastors.

First Evangelical Covenant Church Records, 1880-2001 (K0708)
26 cubic feet

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The First Evangelical Covenant Church Records contains organizational records for a Swedish community church located in Kansas City, Missouri. The collection includes administrative and financial records, photographs, printed and published material, general historical material, and audiotapes.

First National Bank of Kansas City Collection, 1906-1961 (K0975)
0.25 c.f.

clippings, articles related to the history of the bank

First Presbyterian Church (Columbia, Mo.), Presbyterian Women Records, 1905-1985 (C4386)
0.8 cubic feet (21 folders)

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Presbyterian Church and Presbyterian Women's Auxiliary history; meeting minutes; reports; sponsored events; and information on kitchen appliances.

First Presbyterian Church of Rolla Records, 1864-1997 (R0668)
(4 rolls of microfilm)

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These are records of the First Presbyterian Church at Rolla, Missouri. Included are minutes of meetings of the church Session, membership and marriage records, minutes of meetings of Board of Deacons and the Board of Trustees, and church bulletins.

First Presbyterian Church (Columbia, Mo.) Records, 1828-1926, 1964-1965 (C2308)
0.2 cubic feet (4 folders), 6 oversize volumes

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The records contain record books of minutes of session, 1828-1926, which document church members, communicants, church officers, ministers, baptism, marriage, and death records. The records also include documents taken from 1893 church cornerstone, Tenth and Broadway, Columbia, Missouri, and reports of the Church Cornerstone Committee, 1964-1965.

First Presbyterian Church, Fredericktown, Missouri Records, 1880-1985 (R0322)
7 volumes microfilm

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These are minutes of meetings of the Session and the congregation, church registers, and the
centennial history of the First Presbyterian Church of Fredericktown in Madison County, Missouri.
Since 1964 Fredericktown has shared pastors with churches at Cornwall and Ironton.

First Presbyterian Church, Ironton, Missouri Records, 1856-1986 (R0295)
38 volumes microfilmed

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These are records of the Presbyterian Church at Ironton in Iron County, Missouri, which was
organized as part of the Potosi Presbytery in 1855. The records include minutes of meetings of the
church Session, the Board of Trustees, and the congregation, registers of membership, and records of
the women's auxiliary societies.

First United Methodist Church, Cole Camp, Missouri Records, 1896-1983 (R0157)
(2 rolls of microfilm)

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The First United Methodist Church of Cole Camp, Missouri Records contain a microfilm copy of the church’s records. This collection includes meetings minutes, financial
records, membership rolls, and miscellaneous materials. Also included are rerords of the Ionia, Missouri United Methodist Church, whose pastor was supplied by the Cole Camp church after 1965.

First United Methodist Church, Rolla, Missouri Records, 1899-1969 (R0570)
(3 rolls of microfilm)

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The First United Methodist Church, Rolla, Missouri Records are historical records of the First United Methodist Church of Rolla, Missouri. Included in the records are a general history of the church, membership rolls and vital records, and records of the Official Board and Quarterly Conferences.

First United Methodist Church, West Plains, Missouri Records, 1887-1988 (R0359)
11 volumes, 10 folders microfilmed

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These are church registers, quarterly conference reports, and administrative records of the First
United Methodist Church in West Plains, Howell County, Missouri. There are records of predecessor
Methodist churches in West Plains, including the Methodist Episcopal Church, South.

Pauline Stolov Fish and Sam Fish Papers, 1920-2007 (K1363)
4.5 c.f.

Materials related to the lives and family history of Pauline Stolov Fish and Sam Fish of Kansas City, Mo., consisting primarily of photo albums of their wedding, family and travels, in addition to local school annuals, and other printed materials

W. Lyle Fitzgerald Papers, 1918-2003 (C3538)
2.6 cubic feet (106 folders), 1 audio cassette

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The papers contain the correspondence, photographs, newspaper clippings, books, pamphlets, awards, announcements, and miscellaneous material of a soldier who fought in the Pacific Theatre during World War II.

Daniel R. Fitzpatrick Papers, 1913-1966 (C3832)
1.0 cubic foot (55 folders), 16 reels of 16mm film, 16 DVDs

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The Fitzpatrick Papers contain the personal and business correspondence of D.R. Fitzpatrick, editorial cartoonist for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. The collection also contains magazines and newspaper articles concerning “Fitz’s” cartoons of local, regional, and national politics, including government propaganda for both World Wars. Sixteen one-half hour television documentaries on political affairs, entitled Forty-five Years with Fitzpatrick are included in the collection.

Paul Flam and Marion Doris Lichtor Flam Papers, 1910-2006 (K1121)
12 c.f.

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Family papers and records relating to a Kansas City based tour service and various community activities of the Flams. Also family papers for the Lichtor family. Includes letters and postcards, journals, certificates, scripts, pilgrimage brochures, Beth Shalom programs/newsletters, newspaper clippings, photographs, scrapbooks, and VHS cassettes.

Mrs. B.K. Flanery Photograph Collection, 1875-1929 (P0457)
27 photographs

Copy photos of Poplar Bluff, Butler County, late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Flanery-Gillum-Lawson Family Papers, 1862-2005 (C4142)
0.04 cubic feet (2 folders)

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The papers of the Flanery-Gillum-Lawson family include correspondence, family photographs, family documents, and a copy of Paint Lick Reflections, a genealogical publication, Paint Lick, Kentucky, Summer, 2005.

Flat River Woman's Club Records, 1913-1953 (R0206)
(1 roll of microfilm)

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The Flat River Woman’s Club Records include microfilm copies of record books, minutes of meetings, a scrapbook, and miscellaneous papers of a woman’s club in St. Francois County, Missouri. The charitable and civic group was begun in 1907 as the Mothers and Patrons Club of Flat River. The club disbanded in 1953.

Alma Olivia Fletcher Papers, 1841-1968 (C3623)
0.2 cubic feet (16 folders)

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Papers of the Fletcher family of Arcadia, Missouri. Included are two Civil War muster rolls; Missouri will and land deed; scrapbook of Alma's European tour, 1910; and detailed daily bird watching charts, 1960-1968.

Fletcher-Brill Family Papers, 1900-2019 (SP0092)
0.2 cubic foot (5 folders, 59 photographs)

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The Fletcher-Brill Family Papers contain correspondence, photographs, articles, genealogy, and publications on the Fletcher and Brill families of Wright County, Missouri.

Florissant Missouri City Council Ordinance and Council Meeting Minute Books Collection, 1857-1972 (S0013)
0.3 cubic foot, 9 rolls microfilm (33 volumes)

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The Florissant Missouri City Council Ordinance and Council Meeting Minute Book Collection include copies of official correspondence, council rosters, budgets, resolutions, certificates of appointments, and maps, chronicling the city's growth and development from 1857 to 1973.

Mrs. H.D. Floyd Postcard Collection, 1919-1939 (P0531)
15 postcards

Postcards of Boonville area buildings, Arrow Rock Tavern, and Bagnell Dam (Lake of the Ozarks).

Francis Marion Flynn Papers, 1920-1975 (C3812)
1.0 cubic foot (101 folders)

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Papers of a New York City newspaper executive and graduate of the University of Missouri School of Journalism. The collection has correspondence, clippings, speeches, in-house publications, pamphlets, and photographs from Flynn's tenure at the Japan Advertiser Press and the New York Daily News.

Margaret Fogg Photographs, 1921 (S1209)
0.25 cubic foot

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This collection consists of 15 black and white photographic prints of St. Louis scenes from 1921. The photographs were taken by Margaret Fogg's father, aviator Robert Stevens Fogg (1897-1976).

Joseph Wingate Folk Papers, 1902-1952 (C0101)
0.6 cubic feet

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Unfinished biography of Folk by his sister, Mrs. James Avery Webb. Clippings pertaining to Folk's career as circuit attorney in St. Louis, 1902-1904; Democratic governor of Missouri, 1904-1909; races for Senate and failure to win election, 1918; career in Washington, D.C., 1917-1923, under President Woodrow Wilson; and death in 1923. Letters of sympathy at death, Folk-Bates genealogy, speeches by Folk, and miscellaneous material.

Ford Family Papers, 1838-2006 (C4007)
1 cubic foot (37 folders)

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The papers of the Ford, English, Cunningham, and related families include family correspondence, photographs and postcards, genealogical, school, and miscellaneous material. The correspondence contains references to World War I.

Richard "Dick" A. Ford Collection, 1912-2005 (S0774)
3 cubic feet, 43 folders, 10 photographs

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After more than half a century of media service, Richard "Dick" Ford retired from his position as news anchor with St. Louis' KTVI Fox 2 News. Ford was born in Turtle Creek,PA and received a bachelor of science degree in political science from the University of Pittsburgh. He began working in the media industry in 1951. By the time Ford began working in St. Louis for KSDK News Channel 5, he had already established himself as a prominent journalist. In July 1992, he joined the KTVI Fox 2 News team. During his career, Ford earned an Emmy Award among other honors for journalistic excellence. This collection contains news features pertaining to notable events in the St. Louis area, as well as memorabilia pertaining to Ford's career as a news anchor.

Rudy Foree Papers, 1913-1997 (R1289)
(6 folders)

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These are personal papers, photographs and miscellaneous items of Rudy Foree, a resident of Washington
County, Missouri, and United States Army veteran of the Pacific campaigns of World War II. The collection contains genealogical material compiled by Esther M. Ziock Carroll of Potosi, Missouri, including Foree's birth and death certificates and a family history.

Foreign Language Association of Missouri Records, 1921-2013 (C4662)
2.2 cubic feet (56 folders) 1 volume, 144 MB of born digital files

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Meeting minutes, correspondence, publications, financial records, membership records, conference programs, newsletters, and miscellaneous material of the association and the related Modern Language Association of Missouri and Modern Language Club of St. Louis and Vicinity.

Forest Park Research Files Collection, 1870-1995 (S0884)
18 cubic feet

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This collection contains photographs, annual reports, file cards, and newspaper clippings pertaining to the history of Forest Park.

Harold Linden Forester Papers, 1925-2007 (S0265)
2.5 cubic feet

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The Harold Linden Forester Papers contain identification and travel documents, maps, illustrations, pamphlets, newsletters, postcards, correspondence, scrapbooks, photographs, newspaper clippings, academic materials, and military records. The materials date from 1925-2008 and pertain to Forester’s military service during World War II, his undergraduate years at the University of Southern California, his numerous jobs, his world travels, and his lifelong medical problems stemming from a wartime injury. The papers also contain information about the Forester family and Lawrence County, Missouri. Materials of interest include wartime letters from Forester to family members and friends, firsthand recollections of the Battle of Peleliu, and a scrapbook featuring photographs of the Forester family in Lawrence County, Missouri.

Fort Osage Restoration Records, 1808-1979 (K0155)
.5 c.f. (MR)

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Correspondence relating to the reconstruction of Fort Osage by the Jackson County Parks and Recreation Department in consultation with the Native Sons of Greater Kansas City. Also research on the history of the Fort; reconstruction techniques and materials; and authentic artifacts, furniture, costumes, and artillery.

Foster Lumber Company Records, 1889-1956 (K0435)
100 v

Financial ledgers, including trial balances, journals, cash books, purchase books, and freight books for a lumber company in Kansas City, MO.

Fox Family Papers, 1870-1950s (CA6548)
2 cubic feet

Papers of a family from Moberly, Missouri, include photographs, scrapbooks, small artifacts, and miscellaneous material. Material largely concerns Lawrence Fox, Joy Eldridge Fox, and Anna Thieman Fox.

Robert Wilhelm Fraker Papers, 1920-1950 (K0378)
2 c.f.

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Fraker played coronet, was a music teacher, and conductor of the Third Missouri Infantry Band. Consists of handwritten music manuscripts, sheet music, correspondence, photos, and scrapbooks relating to his training and career.

Vendla Johnson Frampton Collection, 1919-1988 (K0286)
0.2 c.f.

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Transcript of an oral history interview in which Mrs. Frampton describes many details of her life, including: Kansas City's "Swede Hill" community; family background and relationships; local Lutheran church history; and holiday food and traditions. Also a Westport High School Memory Book, 1919.

William A. E. French Papers, 1877-1967 (R0175)
(2 rolls of microfilm)

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The William Aden Elmer French Papers contain the microfilmed copies of the papers of an author and newspaper publisher at Eminence in Shannon County, Missouri. Included are hunting and fishing diaries, journals, teaching notebooks, lists of published works, short stories, and family correspondence.

Franke Studio Photographs, 1896-1928 (P0747)
6 photographs

Photos by Franke Studio of Macon: Walker Hardward, Blees Buggy Company, and Lucas Blacksmithing.

Franklin and Binkley Families Papers, 1868-1955 (R1492)
0.06 cubic foot (6 folders, 27 negatives)

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The Franklin and Binkley Families Papers contain photocopies of correspondence, family papers, and photographs. Also included is genealogical information for the Franklin, Binkley, Myers, Herrman, Bray, and other connected families.

Franklin County, Missouri, Photograph Collection, 1895-1920 (P1127)

An artificial collection of photographs of Franklin County, Missouri.

Franz-Gundlach Family Papers, 1877-1956 (C4611)
0.1 cubic feet (3 folders)

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The papers of the Franz-Gundlach family from Lafayette County, Missouri, include correspondence and ephemera gathered during trips to Europe.

Douglas R. Frazee Photographs, 1880-1985 (P0072)
0.25 linear feet

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Photographs of the Missouri River and life on the towboat Brownville, 1963-1985 by Frazee, an engineer on the vessel. Photos of Marshall, MO, 1948-1950, and Marthasville, MO, area in the early 1900s. Aerial photographs of Saline County, Marshall, Brookfield, and Pettis County, 1946-1949. Aerial photographs of farms and buildings along Highways 20, 24, 41 in Saline and Lafayette Counties, ca. 1947. Also include a variety of images of Missouri scenes and Missourians.

Fred Wolferman, Inc. Records, 1897-1972 (K0205)
1.5 c.f.

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Through innovative marketing, Wolferman's enjoyed a prestigious position in Kansas City gourmet food circles. Photographs, menus, news clips, an accounting ledger, scrapbooks and phonograph records, and advertisements and sample correspondence for the operation of grocery stores and restaurants in Missouri, Kansas, and Oklahoma.